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Red Hat To Drop Boxed Retail Distribution

Posted by timothy on from the treasured-collectables dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat, the leading American distributor of Linux, is abandoning the retail channel, the company is expected to announce Monday, says this story in Linux and Main. Non-Red Hat developers will be given a greater role in deciding what's in upcoming Red Hat distributions, too."

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  1. And The Winner Is... by Nick+Driver · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who's the leading distributor period?

    I believe that would be www.linuxiso.org

  2. Re:oh yeah? by mikewren420 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought BitTorrent was the leading distributor, period.

    >-~

  3. Re:Can't possibly be right by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Funny
    You will however have to wait until Monday

    I happen to have the scoop now, for those who can't wait:
    Red Hat has been taken over by aliens from Perseus Omicron 8. Future releases will be forcefully installed by tentacled monsters on all machines in existence to enslave the pathetic humans...

    and they will drop RPM in favor of apt-get.

    Remember, you heard it first on /. and that is a pretty good source.

  4. Re:Can't possibly be right by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 3, Funny

    I for one welcome our new tentacled overlords.

    --
    "Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
  5. Re:Can't possibly be right by Alan+Cox · · Score: 5, Funny

    The aliens is belivable, the tentacled monsters are believable, but apt-get.. ;)